Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

How far men go for the material of their houses! The inhabitants of the most civilized cities, in all ages, send into far, primitive forests, beyond the bounds of their civilization, where the moose and bear and savage dwell, for their pine boards for ordinary use. And, on the other hand, the savage soon receives from cities iron arrow-points, hatchets, and guns, to point his savageness with.

Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the living fact commemorates itself.

The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just.

Even the poor student studies and is taught only political economy, while that economy of living which is synonymous with philosophy is not even sincerely professed in our colleges. The consequence is, that while he is reading Adam Smith, Ricardo, and Say, he runs his father in debt irretrievably.